Indiecade Jamming the Curve

brittenhouse6 — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 15:17:32 +0000

In the summer of 2020, DILAC began a collaboration with the independent games organization Indiecade and the National Academy of sciences to organize a game jam in which participants made science-games about the COVID pandemic. The jam was held in September 2020. The projects can be found on itch.io. DILAC also funded graduate and undergraduate student researchers to build two games. Dinostore was about proper public health behavior, while Essential Workers demonstrated the difficult decisions facing essential workers during the pandemic. Essential Workers was awarded "Most Potential" at the INDCOR Complexity Jam in 2020 and its epidemiological model, adapted for both html and Unity, was provided for free on the Lab's Github.

brittenhouse6 Wed, 03/02/2022 - 10:17

Project Year

2019-20

Project Leads

Janet Murray

Brad Rittenhouse

Students

Terra Gasque

Jordan Graves

Colin Stricklin

Kevin Tang

Aditya Anupam

Genre Tags

Digital Media

Digital Storytelling

Project Site

Game Jam Website

Contact Email

jmurray@gatech.edu

The Aesthetics of Data Settings

brittenhouse6 — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 15:01:55 +0000

The Aesthetics of Data Settings

What characterizes our aesthetic experiences of data? We are exploring what data can do to us, beyond what it does for us. When do data inspire feelings of curiosity, empowerment, anxiety, or resilience? The focus of our work is on data settings, rather than data sets. The term data set suggests something that is complete, discrete, and effortlessly transferable. But data are none of those things. We use the term data setting (first introduced in All Data Are Local: Thinking Critically in a Data Driven Society) to describe a broader context in which data are meant to be fully understood. Our current work explores the role of place and space in the creation of new data settings. We take a creative approach to questions about how data settings might work on an aesthetic level. In 2021, we made expressive use of painted rubber ducks to explore the aesthetics of cute and grotesque data in a physicalization of turbidity data from Intrenchment Creek in Southeast Atlanta (link). This summer, we are designing a new data physicalization for the Georgia Tech EcoCommons, which is described by its creators as “80 acres of green space across campus that follow what were the original naturally occurring stream paths” (link). We believe that data can transform the aesthetic experience of the EcoCommons, with implications for how visitors relate to the broader ecology in which our campus is situated.

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Project Year

2021-22

Project Leads

Yanni Loukissas

Genre Tags

Project Site

Contact Email

yanni.loukissas@lmc.gatech.edu